RaveCleveland Review of BooksKitamura’s work asserts the view that \'truth\' is an elusive construction, her narrators cycling through states of mind such as doubt, paranoia, anxiety, shame, guilt and fury ... The entrancing power of Kitamura’s writing is her way of capturing the way a train of thought both rises then collapses on itself, realizing the irreconcilables it aims to animate ... What elevates Audition from its predecessors is the way she re-writes that concept to embrace that gap ... The way to contain disorder, Kitamura suggests, is not by imposing a false order upon one’s exterior world, but in finding a way to reconcile the ambiguities in a form suited to allow them to fraternize without cancelling each other out. It is a matter of re-inventing your life.
